The Science Museum is seeking a highly skilled, friendly and enthusiastic Conservator to work on the major new permanent Medicine gallery.

This fixed-term post will be based at Blythe House in Kensington Olympia and at the Science Museum in South Kensington depending on project activity. It will be part of the team of conservators which works across the Science Museum's three sites: the third site is our large object store and conservation lab at Wroughton.

The work itself is highly engaging, and will include interventive conservation of objects for the new Medicine gallery, advising on preventive conservation and mounts, installing on gallery and other conservation work relating to the Medicine exhibition. You will work closely with colleagues across the museum in Collections Information, Curatorial and Masterplan teams and meet and advise project teams.

We would like you to bring a recognised conservation qualification, or comparable experience. This will be supported by demonstrable skills in interventive and preventive museum conservation on a wide range of historic objects and material types.

You will need to be aware of hazard management procedures associated with historical objects and have a good knowledge of Health and Safety,including safe use of chemicals for lab safety and collections management.

You will also be able to supervise volunteers and conservation interns and to provide advice and support to core team colleagues as well as project staff.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills and be confident communicating with a wide range of people. We also ask for demonstrable skills in problem solving and prioritising, which will be supported by your previous experience within a museum or cultural heritage environment. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to plan and execute your own work programmes, provide statistics and promote high conservation and collections care standards.

The Science Museum Group (SMG) comprises the Science Museum in London,the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, the National Railway Museum in York and Shildon and the National Media Museum in Bradford. Together they share a unifying mission to engage people in a dialogue about the past,present and future of human ingenuity in the fields of science, technology,medicine, transport and media.